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~ 12/10/06
The legislative anti-drug trafficking commission will be asked to launch an investigation of the Costa Rican activities of a jailed drug cartel figure.
That was something sought by Kevin Casas, the second vice president of the country, when he appeared before the full Asamblea Legislative to discuss his relationship or lack of relationship with the man, George Nayor.
The request by Casas found backing from Mayi Antillón, head of the Partido Liberación Nacional in the assembly. She said she would present a motion for the Comisión de Narcotráfico to start the probe. Casas also belongs to Liberación Nacional.
Nayor has been in and out of the country using a false passport at least 10 times since mid-2005.
Casas is involved because he admits meeting Nayor at a birthday party for his brother, Ciro Casas. Kevin Casas generated mystery about the case over the weekend when he said that his brother had vanished. But Ciro Casas turned up Wednesday after what his family said was a business trip to Colombia.
Ciro Casas told Channel 6 news that he only knew Nayor as a law practice client and that the man just happened to turn up at the time of the birthday party.
Another news outlet reported that Kevin Casas said he was introduced to Nayor by his brother, who called Nayor a close friend.
Ciro Casas also said that he had no knowledge of some $15 million that Nayor is supposed to have stashed here.
Antonio Saca, the president of El Salvador where Nayor was living, said the man was among those who planned to kill him because of his opposition to drug trafficking. Nayor was expelled from El Salvador into the hands of U.S. drug agents who say he is a key figure in the Medellín drug cartel once run by Pablo Escobar.
He is now in jail in Florida.
President Óscar Arias Sánchez has called for transparency.
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